Day 5 of Architecture

Today in class we had our first test. For the test we had to create a tower house for a lonely musician. The test wasn't very hard, but it took a little bit to figure out how the house should be shaped. For me the hardest part of the test was getting through the actual test questions because I did not have a lot of time to do them. I got through the questions but I didn't feel i was able to elaborate as much as I could have. After today's test I am wondering what future test will be like, and I also wonder if we will have traditional tests with just answering questions.                                  

Also today we watched a video about the Alhambra Palace in Granada Spain. It was one of the more interesting videos we have watched so far. It was about the beauty and mathematical components of the Alhambra Palace. To the Muslims who originally built the palace it was a sign of beauty, paradise, and poetry. It had wonderful details in designs and there was even poetry on the walls in some rooms. One thing I found very interesting about he palace was that it had its own water cooling system so even when it got hot it was cool in the palace. The video said it wouldn't get over 22 degrees Celsius (72 degrees Fahrenheit)  in the palace.


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